The 10,000th Comment Is…

A couple of months back I mentioned that we were closing in on 10,000 comments and might very well get there by the end of the year. Then we hit a slow patch, and I more or less forgot about it. Today, though, I noticed that we actually passed the magic number already. We’re currently at 10,100 and moving strong.

No doubt you’re all wondering, though: who’s the lucky commenter? What sort of wisdom did they impart (albeit unknowingly) to celebrate this milestone of milestones?

Brace yourself, for comment #10,000 is a winner. In many ways, it exemplifies the very nature of The Loss Column and explains its appeal:

But then you go to Roch and Schmuck and they have posts basically giving the whole thing a big “meh”. I understand it’s their obligation to not get swept up in anything until there’s something official. But DAMN is this agonizing.

I give it a big “meh”, too. What do we KNOW today that we didn’t yesterday? That Tex would like to play for the Orioles if everything else were equal? That everything else isn’t equal? That we’re offering good money to him?

Stop me when I get to the news.

Now listen. I have faith that this gets done, but I don’t know when or for how much. You just have to trust that Andy MacPhail knows exactly what he’s doing and why and what he plans on doing afterwards, one way or the other. Our motto has basically been “in Andy we Trust”, and he’s done nothing to temper that. But you can’t keep jumping up at the slightest hint from source X or source R (and is Roy)…it’s unproductive and little unbecoming.